Corner and edge protector



Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. KNAPP, BROOKLYN NEWV YORK.

CORNER AND EDGE PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,336, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed December 8, 1888. Serial No. 293,060. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. KNAPP, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corner and Edge Protectors, of which the following is a specification, and is represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 represents a side sectional view of the protector. Fig. 2 represents a face view of the protector. Fig. 3 represents a View of the protector attached by means of the band B to the corner of a carpetesweeper.

My invention relates to a corner and edge protector adapted more especially to the edges and corners of carpet-sweepers. It is of peculiar form, is composed of rubber, and'will prevent the sweeper from injuring furniture, walls, or carpets by sudden contact, and will add durability to the corners or edges upon which it is placed. Its advantage consists in its peculiar form and its being manufactured of rubber, which will yield to and not tear or break anything it strikes, and in the fact that the nails or screws or bands used to fasten the protector to the edge or corner to which it is attached are inserted in the groove in the middle of the protector, and are prevented from doing injury by reason of the two sides of the protector rising above such groove and the nails or screws or bands placed therein, and its further advantage is its compact, light, and neat shape.

My invention is L-shaped, is manufactured of rubber, and on the outside and running along the middle is a groove considerably lower than the sides of the protector, in which can be inserted the nails or screws with which to fasten it to the article to which it is to be attached. It may also'be fastened to said article by a metal band placed in the groove and both fastened to the article by means of nails or screws.

The protector may be made of any size to fit the corner or edge to which it is to be attached.

In the drawings, Fig. 3, A refers to the rubber protector with its raised edge, and B refers to the metal band by which the protector may be fastened to the object to which it is attached.

The dotted line C represents the outline of a corner of a carpet-sweeper to which the protector is fastened, the protector projecting out from the sweeper and the band B and projecting a little lower than the bottom of the sweeper, thus showing the protection afforded.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A corner and edge protector manufactured of rubber, adapted especially for the edges and corners of carpet-sweepers, said protector being L-shaped, with a groove running along the center on the outside to receive the fastenings by which said protect-or is to be attached, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I- claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 26th day of November, 1888.

CHARLES E. KNAPP.

Witnesses:

TIMOTHY WALY, Jr, A. W'IIYTE. 

